Login To The Huawei EchoLife-HG523 Router Using Your Web Browser

Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser.

In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your Huawei EchoLife-HG523 router.
By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.1.

You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now.

The Default Huawei EchoLife-HG523 Router Username is: admin

The Default Huawei EchoLife-HG523 Router Password is: admin

Click the Login button to log in to your Huawei EchoLife-HG523 router.

Default Usernames and Passwords for other Huawei Routers

If you can't login to your router because you forgot your Huawei EchoLife-HG523 router username and password, use our
How to Reset a Router Password guide to set your
Huawei EchoLife-HG523 router back to its factory settings.

How to Port Forward PS3 To End All Wars on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523

Having trouble forwarding ports on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523?

If you are having trouble with this guide, then perhaps PFConfig may be your solution.
PFConfig is a software tool that will automatically forward ports for your router to save you time and hassle.

Huawei EchoLife-HG523 Router Port Forwarding Screenshots

Now that you are logged in to your Huawei EchoLife-HG523 router you should see the following:

Click the Advanced button near the left of the page.

You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click NAT.

Click the Port Mapping button near the top of the page.

Forward Ports 5223 on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. PS3 To End All Wars requires
you to forward the 5223,3478,3479,3658 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Port Mapping menu and then click Submit.

Type:

Customization

Application

Interface:

Protocol:

External Port:

Internal Port:

Internal Host:

Remote Host:

Mapping Name:

Forward Ports 3478 on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Port Mapping page.
Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Submit.

Type:

Customization

Application

Interface:

Protocol:

External Port:

Internal Port:

Internal Host:

Remote Host:

Mapping Name:

Forward Ports 3479 on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Port Mapping page.
Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Submit.

Type:

Customization

Application

Interface:

Protocol:

External Port:

Internal Port:

Internal Host:

Remote Host:

Mapping Name:

Forward Ports 3658 on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Port Mapping page.
Go ahead and enter those settings and then click Submit.

Type:

Customization

Application

Interface:

Protocol:

External Port:

Internal Port:

Internal Host:

Remote Host:

Mapping Name:

And that is it! You are done!

Test if Your Ports are Open

Now that you have forwarded ports for PS3 To End All Wars on the Huawei EchoLife-HG523 you should test to see if your ports are forwarded correctly.

To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Open Port Check tool.
Our Open Port Check tool is the only online port checking tool with Guaranteed Results.